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Great presentation by Khoi Vinh, Design Director for New York Times Interactive. This is good info for designers of all disciplines and experience levels.

Direct download: "Grids Are Good" (8mb pdf)

Amazon launched the TiVo integration that is part of their Unboxed video download service. When you link your TiVo account with your Amazon account you get a $15 credit (great move, probably wouldn't have spent the money otherwise) that you can use to try out the service risk-free.

I purchased a movie for my kids and when I got home it was already transferring onto my TiVo. Impressive.

Also, it's a way to catch those movies you missed at the theatre the day they come out on DVD... at a fraction of the cost of the DVD.

Today is the birthday of the esteemed Tarvr the Carvr. He is 27 today and shares a birthday with some interesting folks.

Happy Birthday Travis!

Travis takes his 650i luxury convertible for a spin

Most of the folks here at Plexus went to Athens BMW to take a 12 mile drive in a BMW of our choice to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.BMW donates $1 for every mile driven in a BMW.

This morning, I formatted an email newsletter for Nuci's Space. Because most web-based email services don't support modern web standards in their preview windows, one must resort to old table-based layout to insure that your message has the best chance to be seen.

First, I thought I'd seen the last of the font tag, nested tables and other ugly format hacks when we adopted a web standards based approach at Plexus back in 2004 (Definitely, the first Athens, Georgia web development firm to adopt this approach). Unfortunately, until web-based email stops stripping inline styles we'll still have to delve into the dark underworld of table hacking to reach the most possible email subscribers.

Secondly, it made me appreciate modern CSS and XHTML methods. Not only do you produce lighter, cleaner files that are portable across mediums and platforms, it's much easier for me or anyone to maintain those files at a later date. Also, there are many SEO (search engine optimization) benefits as well.

I guess this is the way Adam feels when he has to get back into an old .NET, ASP or PHP project after working in the simplified, logical develoment framework that is Ruby on Rails ;)